Rendezvous: Short Story and Kim
Rendezvous (udtales på fransk rendevou)
Summary:
”Rendezvous” is a short story, written by Daniel Ransom in 1985. The story takes place on the interstate highway in the United States of America.
The story split up into two stories. The one half of the story is about a girl called Kim, and the other side of the story is about a man called Payton. The story is following both persons, Kim and Payton, at the same time. But in the end of the story they meet each other and the two stories becomes one. Kim is a fifteen years old teenager. She wants to have the control over her own life, without her parents interfering. Kim is sitting in an Interstate rest stop. It is cold and its starts raining. She is hungry and wishes a little bit that she is back home. At the same time Payton is driving very fast as if he is trying to escape from something on the interstate highway, he is listening to very loud music with high drums. He has just made a confession to a priest, He thinks on what the priest told him to do, turn himself in to the police. The priest was not as nice as he thought he would be. It’s nearly dark and the rain is starting. Kim goes outside from the rest stop, looking at the pay phone but she thinks it is too early to contact her parents. She is also thinking about the good story she can tell to her friends. She decides to have a ride before it is get night Kim watches the car pull off the road fifty yards past and she begins to run. She wishes that she could see the driver, but it is very dark and raining. As she opens the door, she hears the drums.
Settings:
The story takes place in the real world(reality) and not in a fantasy world. The atmosphere in the story is heavy, dark, you can feel this is going to go wrong. Rainy, dark, beers, the rest stop.
Characters:
There are two main characters: Kim is a fifteen years old girl, who wants live her own life, without her parent’s interfering. She is just about to call her parents, before she
Summary:
”Rendezvous” is a short story, written by Daniel Ransom in 1985. The story takes place on the interstate highway in the United States of America.
The story split up into two stories. The one half of the story is about a girl called Kim, and the other side of the story is about a man called Payton. The story is following both persons, Kim and Payton, at the same time. But in the end of the story they meet each other and the two stories becomes one. Kim is a fifteen years old teenager. She wants to have the control over her own life, without her parents interfering. Kim is sitting in an Interstate rest stop. It is cold and its starts raining. She is hungry and wishes a little bit that she is back home. At the same time Payton is driving very fast as if he is trying to escape from something on the interstate highway, he is listening to very loud music with high drums. He has just made a confession to a priest, He thinks on what the priest told him to do, turn himself in to the police. The priest was not as nice as he thought he would be. It’s nearly dark and the rain is starting. Kim goes outside from the rest stop, looking at the pay phone but she thinks it is too early to contact her parents. She is also thinking about the good story she can tell to her friends. She decides to have a ride before it is get night Kim watches the car pull off the road fifty yards past and she begins to run. She wishes that she could see the driver, but it is very dark and raining. As she opens the door, she hears the drums.
Settings:
The story takes place in the real world(reality) and not in a fantasy world. The atmosphere in the story is heavy, dark, you can feel this is going to go wrong. Rainy, dark, beers, the rest stop.
Characters:
There are two main characters: Kim is a fifteen years old girl, who wants live her own life, without her parent’s interfering. She is just about to call her parents, before she